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ConstipationIacono, G., Carroccio A., Cavataio F., Montalto G., Cantarero M.D. and Notarbartolo A. 1995. Chronic constipation as a symptom of cow milk allergy. J. Pediatr., 126, 34-39 Diet, Atkins"Consequences of extended ketosis: Muscle breakdown, nausea, dehydration, headaches, light-headedness, irritability, bad breath, kidney problems, and increased risk of heart disease." ("Fad Diets Versus Dietary Guidelines," American Institute for Cancer Research: http://www.eatingbythebook.com/fads/more1.html) "Findings of the only recent study pointed to by Dr. Robert Atkins to support his diet (done by Dr. Eric Westman and funded by Atkins himself): On the Atkins diet, 70% of people become constipated, and 65% develop bad breath." Dr. Dean Ornish: Millenium Lecture Series Symposium on the Great Nutrition Debate, Jefferson Auditorium," U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Feb 24, 2000. Dr. Westman was present and did not dispute the findings or Ornish's statement) "Potential consequences of extended ketosis in pregnancy: Fetal abnormality or death" "Danger of extended ketosis for diabetics: Death" "Atkins' diet can lead to the kind of rapid weight fluctuations that adversely effect the heart. Moreover, the breakdown of fatty acids that occurs during ketosis may also increase the risk of heart disease. One of the basic tenets of Atkins' diet is that sugar causes cancer. Such misleading pronouncements are essentially scare tactics, meant to direct the dieter towards foods on the Atkins plan. Finally, nothing about this plan encourages the dieter to learn some very basic weight management strategies like portion control and serving sizes, let alone develop the skills necessary for a lifetime of balanced nutrition." ("Fad Diets Versus Dietary Guidelines," American Institute for Cancer Research: http://www.eatingbythebook.com/fads/more1.html "Scientific reality (published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition): Beef raises insulin levels more than white pasta; Fish raises insulin levels more than whole grain bread; Beef raises insulin levels 27 times higher than brown rice." ("Fad Diets Versus Dietary Guidelines," American Institute for Cancer Research) "Scientific reality (published in the American Journal of Cardiology): Among people with insulin resistance, three weeks on a high-complex-carbohydrate diet, along with exercise, reduced insulin levels by 30%. Additional benefits included a 4% decrease in weight, and more than 20% reductions in cholesterol and triglycerides, indicating greatly reduced heart disease risk." (Journal of the American Dietic Association 1980;77:264, cited in McDougall, J., "Americans are getting fatter -- and dying from it," EarthSave, 2000) Diets, Zone"It is painfully clear, in spite of Sears statements to the contrary, that the foundation of the Zone is extreme calorie restriction. In the short term, such a very low calorie diet will indeed lead to weight loss, but most of it is water loss. In the long term, it will cause nutritional deficiencies and a decreased metabolic rate, making it even harder to maintain a healthy weight." (Jennifer Raymond, nutritionist - "Caution: Approaching the Zone" - http://www.navs-online.org/voice/zone.html) [03.03.12.02] "Barry Sears' The Zone... is another diet craze... Sears' advice will probably help you lose weight, but only because you'll be eating fewer calories, not because his untested hypotheses about protein, carbohydrates and insulin will put you into what he calls 'The Zone.' And to experts who have seen miracle diets come and go like hemlines, hair-dos, and celebrity romances, that's nothing new... The Zone and other 'carbo-phobia' diets are based on an eensy-weensy kernel of truth --- blown way out of proportion by theory, not evidence." (Center for Science in the Public Interest, Liebmann, Bonnie, "Carbo-Phobia - Zoning Out on the New Diet Books," Nutrition Action, July/Aug 1996) [03.03.12.07] "I disagree strongly with the notion that having high blood insulin, by itself, makes you gain more weight. There are so many studies showing that if you decrease calories, people lose weight, and it doesn't matter if you do it by cutting fat, protein or carbohydrate." (Gerald Reaven, M.D., Stanford University, as quoted by the Center for Science in the Public Interest, Liebmann, Bonnie, "Carbo-Phobia - Zoning Out on the New Diet Books," Nutrition Action, July/Aug 1996) "Physical condition of Barry Sears: So overweight that he exceeds the upper limits of weight recommended by federal guidelines." (Attwood, Charlies, "Enter the Zone: A Giant Leap Backwards," http://www.vegsource.com/attwood/zone.htm) Heart Diseases"Cardiovascular diseases are responsible for 40 percent of all deaths in the United States and cost the nation more than $300 billion annually. Each year, 710,000 Americans die of heart disease and more than 166,000 die of stroke. Sodium is directly associated with elevated blood pressure levels, which is a major contributing factor for these diseases. " (American Public Health Association, http://www.apha.org/news/press/2002/sodium_consumption.htm) "The average American adult ingests nearly 4,000 mg of sodium daily, far exceeding the current recommendation to consume no more than 2,400 mg per day. Between two-thirds and three-fourths of the daily sodium intake of the U.S. population comes from salt in processed foods; the remainder comes from salt added while cooking or at the table." (American Public Health Association, http://www.apha.org/news/press/2002/sodium_consumption.htm) Resolving the Coronary Artery Disease Epidemic through Plant-Based Nutrition by Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., MD, resume at http://www.vegsource.com/esselstyn/ This article was published in Preventive Cardiology 2001; 4: 171-177. It’s viewable at http://www.all-creatures.org/health/resolving.html Esselstyn, C.B.J. 1999. Updating a 12-year experience with arrest and reversal therapy for coronary heart disease (an overdue requiem for palliative cardiology) Am. J. Cardiology, 84, 339-341 “Intensive Lifestyle Changes for Reversal of Coronary Heart Disease” by Dean Ornish, MD et al Published: JAMA 1998 280: 2001-2007 “Effect of Lifestyle Changes on Coronary Heart Disease” by Dean Ornish, MD et al JAMA 1999 282: 130-132. “Serum Lipids After a Low-Fat Diet” by Dean Ornish, MD and Robert H. Knopp MD JAMA 1998 279: 1345-1346. “Dietary Fat and Ischemic Stroke” by Robert Brunner MD, Dean Ornish, MD et al JAMA 1998 279: 1171-1173. McMurry MP. Changes in lipid and lipoprotein levels and body weight in Tarahumara Indians after consumption of an affluent diet. N Engl J Med. 1991 Dec 12;325(24):1704-8. Ingelfinger JA. Coronary heart disease in the Pima Indians. Electrocardiographic findings and postmortem evidence of myocardial infarction in a population with a high prevalence of diabetes mellitus. Diabetes. 1976 Jul;25(7):561-5. Brinton EA. A low-fat diet decreases high density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol levels by decreasing HDL apolipoprotein transport rates. J Clin Invest. 1990 Jan;85(1):144-51. McDougall J. Rapid reduction of serum cholesterol and blood pressure by a twelve-day, very low fat, strictly vegetarian diet. J Am Coll Nutr. 1995 Oct;14(5):491-6. This report is on 500 of our people, Report on 2000 is yet unpublished. Roberts WC. Atherosclerotic risk factors--are there ten or is there only one? Am J Cardiol. 1989 Sep 1;64(8):552-4. "Proteins that raise cholesterol levels: Animal proteins." "Proteins that lower cholesterol levels: Soy proteins." "Primary dietary sources of cholesterol: Eggs, shellfish, chicken, beef, fish, pork, cheese, butter, milk." "Plant foods containing cholesterol: NONE." (Anderson, JW, et. al., Meta-analysis of the effects of soy protein intake on serum lipids, New England Journal of Medicine 1995;333:276-82. See also Carroll KK. Dietary protein in relation to plasma cholesterol levels and artheroscerosis. Nutrition Review 1978;36:1-5) "Drop in heart disease risk for every 1 percent decrease in blood cholesterol: 3-4 percent" (Law MR, WaldNJ, Wu T., et. al., Systematic underestimation of association between serum cholesterol concentration and ischaemic heart disease.... British Medical Journal 1994; 308:363-66) "Risk of death from heart disease for vegetarians compared to non-vegetarians: Half" "Vegetarians have lower rates of cancer, heart disease, hypertension, diabetes, gallstones, kidney disease, obesity, and colon disease." (Virginia Messina, coauthor of the American Dietetic Association position paper on vegetarian diets, Messina, Mark, and Messina, Virginia, The Dietician's Guide To Vegetarian Diets: Issues and Applications, Aspen Publishers, Gaithersburg, Maryland, 1996, pg. 20) "Blood cholesterol levels of vegans ( no meat, eggs, or dairy products) compared to non-vegetarians: 35 percent lower" (Resnicow K, Barone J, Engle A, et. al., Diet and serum lipids in vegan vegetarians: A model for risk reduction. Journal of the American Dietetic Association 1991;91:447-53. "Average cholesterol level of U.S. vegetarians: 161" "Average cholesterol level of U.S. vegans: 133" (McDougall, John, The McDougall Program for a Healthy Heart, Dutton, NY NY, 1996, pg. 66-7; See also Fisher, M. et. al., "The effect of vegetarian diets on plasma lipid and platelet levels," Archives of Internal Medicine 1986;146:1193-97 "A large and convincing body of evidence from studies in humans . . . shows that diets low in saturated fatty acids and cholesterol are associated with low risks and rates of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease." (U.S. National Research Council, in "Diet and Health, Implications for Reducing Chronic Disease Risk) Stroke“Optimal dietary habits for the prevention of stroke.” Semin Neurol. 2006 Feb;26(1):11-23. Ding EL, Mozaffarian D. We reviewed 121 English-language MEDLINE publications from January 1979 through November 2004 for experimental, observational, and clinical studies of dietary factors (minerals, fats, cholesterol, fish, animal protein, fiber, whole grains, carbohydrate quality, fruits and vegetables, antioxidants, B vitamins, dietary patterns) and risk of stroke or hypertension, the principal modifiable stroke risk factor. Diets low in sodium and high in potassium lower blood pressure which will likely reduce stroke risk. Consumption of fruits and vegetables, whole grains, folate, and fatty fish are each likely to reduce stroke risk. A prudent or traditional Mediterranean dietary pattern, which incorporates these individual dietary components as well as intake of legumes [and olive oil], may also prevent stroke. Herbivores, AlmostWe have rotary grinding molars to break down plant foods, whereas carnivores have hinged jaws that only move up and down for ripping, never sideways for grinding. We don’t have fangs, only 4 dull canines out of 32 teeth, canines that function in the same way as our herbivorous incisors, not as fangs for ripping flesh. Why do we have herbivorous incisors and herbivorous canines? For the same reason that cattle have herbivorous incisor and canine teeth: to chomp plants and fruit (The Anatomy of Domestic Animals by Sisson and Grossman). However, looking at the other side of the coin, since the close primate relatives of humans, the chimpanzees, eat rodents and insects, it’s plausible that the progenitors of humans ate small animals for millions of years. That consumption of animals over an evolutionary time scale may have led to a small dependency on getting a very small amount several times a week, for example due to reduced biosynthesis of L-carnitine and L-taurine. OsteoporosisMilk is touted for preventing osteoporosis, yet clinical research shows otherwise. The Harvard Nurses’ Health Study,1 which followed more than 75,000 women for 12 years, showed no protective effect of increased milk consumption on fracture risk. In fact, increased intake of calcium from dairy products was associated with a higher fracture risk. An Australian study2 showed the same results. Additionally, other studies3,4 have also found no protective effect of dairy calcium on bone. You can decrease your risk of osteoporosis by reducing sodium and animal protein intake in the diet,5-6 increasing intake of fruits and vegetables, exercising, and ensuring adequate calcium intake from plant foods such as leafy green vegetables and beans, as well as calcium-fortified products such as breakfast cereals and juices. 1. Feskanich D, Willet WC, Stampfer MJ, Colditz GA. Milk, dietary calcium, and bone fractures in women: a 12-year prospective study. Am J Public Health 1997;87:992-7. 2. Cumming RG, Klineberg RJ. Case-control study of risk factors for hip fractures in the elderly. Am J Epidemiol 1994;139:493-505. 3. Huang Z, Himes JH, McGovern PG. Nutrition and subsequent hip fracture risk among a national cohort of white women. Am J Epidemiol 1996;144:124-34. 4. Cummings SR, Nevitt MC, Browner WS, et al. Risk factors for hip fracture in white women. N Engl J Med 1995;332:767-73. 5. Finn SC. The skeleton crew: is calcium enough? J Women’s Health 1998;7(1):31-6. 6. Nordin CBE. Calcium and osteoporosis. Nutrition 1997;3(7/8):664-86. Am. J. Clin. Nutr. 1985 41:254-63 Study funded by dairy industry shows that the protein content of dairy causes negative calcium balance. Overweight"Increased risk of heart disease for obese people: Double to triple." "Increased risk of diabetes for very obese people: 40 times greater" "Increased risk of gallstones for obese people: Double to triple." "Increased risk of colon cancer for obese people: Triple to quadruple." (Root, Marty, “Obesity and Health: A Hard Look at the Data,” New Century Nutrition) "U.S. population considered obese by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 1991: 12%, in 1998: 17.9%" (Mokdad, A., et. al., “The Spread of the Obesity Epidemic in the United States,” Journal of the American medical Association 1999;282:1519-22.) "Relative risk of obesity for meat eaters compared to vegetarians: 2.5 to 4 times greater" (Wyatt, C., et. al., “Dietary intake of sodium, potassium, and blood pressure in lacto-ovo vegetarians,” Nutrition Research 1995:15(6):819-30; See also Kahn, HS, et. al., “Stable behaviors associated with adults’ 10-year change in body mass index and likelihood of gain at the waist,” American Journal of Public Health, 1997:87:747-54; Key, T., et. al., “Prevalence of obesity is low in people who do not eat meat,” British medical Journal 1996:313:816-17) "Americans killed annually by diseases due to excess weight: 280,000" (Allison, D., et. al., “Annual deaths attributable to obesity in the United States,” Journal of the American medical Association 1999:16:1530-38) Parkinson’sParkinson’s disease has been linked to dairy (Chen Honglei, Harvard, Diet and Parkinson’s Disease, Ann. Neurol. 2002 Dec; 52(6):793). PathogensMore than half a million in the USA become seriously ill each year due to pathogenic organisms in animal products, many with life-long debilitating effects. Hundreds die. Can’t do without the convenience of burger and fries? How about after reading “What’s in the Meat”? (Ch.9, Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser ISBN 0-06-093845-5, www.RawFood.com). Premenstrual SyndromeVitamin D and calcium help to alleviate some symptoms of premenstrual syndrome, like anxiety and irritability (Archives of Internal Medicine June 13, 2005;165(11):1246-1252). Weight GainOn June 6, 2005, Harvard researchers published what may be considered the definitive study on the subject in the Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine. A study which followed the milk-drinking habits of not 11 kids, or even 12 kids, but over 12,000 kids! After following these 9- though 14-year-olds for years, they found that "children who reported higher total milk intake experienced larger weight gains." The more milk they drank, the heavier they became. Boys who drank the "recommended" three servings of milk a day were 35% more likely to become overweight and girls who drank three servings were 36% more likely to become overweight over time (Berkey CS, et al. "Milk, Dairy Fat, Dietary Calcium, and Weight Gain." Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine 1599(2005):543-50). http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/06/AR2005060601348.html Study: More Milk Means More Weight Gain The study of more than 12,000 children nationwide found that the more milk they drank, the more weight they gained: Those consuming more than three servings each day were about 35 percent more likely to become overweight than those who drank one or two. "The take-home message is that children should not be drinking milk as a means of losing weight or trying to control weight," said Catherine S. Berkey of Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston The National Dairy Council has spent $200 million since 2003 to promote the idea that milk can help people lose weight. Some research has suggested that calcium or other elements in milk may cause the body to make less fat and speed its elimination, but the studies produced mixed results. I was surprised when it turned out the way it did," said Berkey, whose findings are being published in the June issue of the journal Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine. The dairy industry disputed the idea that the new study challenges its ads, saying it had said only that adults may be able to lose more weight if they drink milk while cutting calories." Our message has always been very conservative -- that three servings a day as part of a reduced-calorie diet may help promote weight loss," said Isabel Maples, a dietician speaking for the council. "Most children don't even get one serving a day" of milk." Our findings do not suggest that if children replace beverages sweetened with sugar with milk they would reduce their body weight," Berkey said. Weight LossWith unlimited servings, no limits on calorie intake, no hunger, no exercise requirement, the plant-based diet group lost significantly more weight (over 50% more) than the diet currently recommended to reduce disease risk. "Reductions in body mass index and waist circumference were also significantly greater in the intervention group, compared with the control group." "In conclusion," the researcher wrote, "in a controlled trial, the consumption of a low-fat, vegan diet was associated with significant weight reduction, along with improvements in measures of glucose tolerance and insulin sensitivity." Barnard ND, et al. 2005. The effects of a low-fat, plant-based dietary intervention on body weight, metabolism, and insulin sensitivity. American Journal of Medicine 118(9):991-7 Viral InhibitionHu, J., Cheng Z., Chisari F.V., Vu T.H., Hoffman A.R. and Campbell T.C. 1997. Repression of hepatitis B virus (HBV) transgene and HBV-induced liver injury by low protein diet. Oncogene, 15, 2795-2801 Download 0.98 Mb. Share with your friends:
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